1: 1 GB data cap, though you can sign up to other plans, with the largest 60GB and $2 per extra GB. 2: You need to spend $20 on tolls on your home line. Who uses these anymore? 3: I’m in Perth right now. Actually, to be fair, all and every price decrease for mobile …
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The big mail transfer is finally coming… and not before time. Telecom’s somewhat clueless (and expensive) marketers have managed to mangle thing though, for a start using the name “Yahoo!Xtra Bubble” for the new service. Xtra subscribers will get moved to Yahoo Mail (the Beta is great), and will also get Flickr Pro, a 1 …
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Chicago’s OHare airport is ripping out pay phones and replacing them with power sockets, chairs and counters. Bless them – I’m sick of wandering around (usually american) airports looking for power sockets. Disposable income for “Managers” is largest in Saudi Arabia, small in the USA and generally better in third world countries than first world. …
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I’m actually ok with Telecom outsourcing part of their broadband help-desk support to Manila – as long as they do it right, which, knowing Telecom, they won’t. Here are some implementation tips for them…. Firstly, don’t let the Filipinos pretend that they are sitting in Waikanae or Auckland. That’s insulting to them and insulting to …
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I didn’t know this, but it explains a lot: “When Theresa Gattung was named as new chief executive at Telecom in October 1999, the shares closed at $8.61. Yesterday, after news that British Telecom executive Paul Reynolds will replace Gattung, the shares closed at $4.48” It’s not like this is a hard job. The share …
A little birdie sent me through the rest of the article (along with some rather serious complaining from a couple folk about the inadequacy of theline) Some choice quotes “Brayham believes the success of TradeMe will rub off on Ferrit. “TradeMe is probably one of the best training grounds for Ferrit,” he says. “ eCommerce …
darn – looks like I’ve missed out on that Telecom CEO role… perhaps they didn’t find the new ‘contact me’ piece on this site….
We are told in the NZHerald that Yahoo!xtra gets 4-500,000 UB’s a week and 12-14m page impressions. Could we see the source for that information? Yahoo!xtra isn’t on NetRatings and so we have no evidence that this is true? Let’s graph it, and I stress, these figures are not at all comparable – the Yahoo! …
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I’ve updated the New Zealand Retail site daily stats referred to in a previous post. Once again it is Nielsen NetRatings data, for domestic traffic. First and foremost- Trade Me is still the only online retailer in New Zealand (aside from airlines) Let’s look at that by hours spent on site – this is Unique …
…and incumbent Alcatel-Lucent will build it. Nice scoop Juha. You have to wonder at the price Telecom can get when faced with such an incumbent supplier. It’s a dhame Telecom are not changing their new international roaming prices just yet – I guess subscribers will keep either paying too much or switching to local (GSM) …
A strange press release from newly independent Yellow Pages, who are: “approaching a number of large New Zealand businesses and government organisations believed to be misusing information from White Pages online.” They are saying it is part of an “industry move”, with quotes from IAB’s Josh Borthwick and Keith Norris from the Marketing Association. So …
Did Orcon think that this was really the appropriate way to market their brand at Armageddon? What is it with ISP’s and marketing campaigns in NZ?
Has someone actually done it? The biggest pain when travelling is that either your international friends and associates need to call your foreign number, or you have to buy a local phone or sim card. There are problems with both – the first incurrs costs for both you and your callers, and many in the …
As part of the Fairfax role I’ll be presenting at the “Opportunities in Broadband & Next Generation Networks” conference. What a catchy title. I’m taking the place of Nic Cola on Day two (with a different take), right after lunch, and will have fun explaining what we consumers will get from the media companies once …
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